Joseph Hiester

Joseph Hiester (18 November 1752-10 June 1832) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-PA 5) from 1797 to 1803 (succeeding George Ege and preceding Andrew Gregg), from PA-3 from 1803 to 1805 (succeeding Joseph Hemphill), and from PA-7 from 1815 to 1820 (interrupting Daniel Udree's terms), as well as Governor of Pennsylvania from 19 December 1820 to 16 December 1823 (succeeding William Findlay and preceding John Andrew Shulze).

Biography
Joseph Hiester was born in Bern Township, Pennsylvania in 1752, and he worked as a store clerk in Reading before serving as a militia colonel at the battles of Long Island and Germantown during the American Revolutionary War. He served in the State House from 1787 to 1790, in the State Senate from 1790 to 1794, in the US House of Representatives from 1797 to 1805 and from 1815 to 1820, and as Governor of Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1823. He died in 1832.